Motivational Quotes

Joy

Nothing is interesting if you are not interested.

- Macinness, Helen

Best Quotes about Joy

Enjoy what thou has inherited from thy sires if thou wouldn't really possess it. What we employ and use is never an oppressive burden; what the moment brings forth, that only can it profit by.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

For one mother, joy is the quiet pleasure found in gently rubbing shampoo into her young child's hair. For another woman it's taking a long walk alone, while for yet another it's reviling in a much -- anticipated vacation.

Stukane, Eileen

Unexplained joy is always so keen that... it seems to hold enough to reconcile one to the inevitable.

Fremont, Jessie B.

Doing is the great thing, for if people resolutely do what is right, they come in time to like doing it.

Ruskin, John

Temper your enjoyments with prudence, lest there be written on your heart that fearful word satiety.

Quarles, Francis

If your capacity to acquire has outstripped your capacity to enjoy, you are on the way to the scrap-heap.

Buck, Glen

I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!

Jerry Van Amerongen

What joy can the years bring half so sweet as the unhappiness they've taken away?

Smith, Logan Pearsall

Joy, rather than happiness, is the goal of life, for joy is the emotion which accompanies our fulfilling our natures as human beings. It is based on the experience of one's identity as a being of worth and dignity.

May, Rollo

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The enjoyment of life would be instantly gone if you removed the possibility of doing something.

Depew, Chauncey

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Learning to live in the present moment is part of the path of joy.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

12.

To love what you do and feel that it matters -- how could anything be more fun?

Graham, Katherine

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The ultimate goal of a more effective and efficient life is to provide you with enough time to enjoy some of it.

Leboeuf, Michael

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You have not found your place until all your faculties are roused, and your whole nature consents and approves of the work you are doing.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Give not over thy soul to sorrow; and afflict not thyself in thy own counsel. Gladness of heart is the life of man and the joyfulness of man is length of days.

Ecclesiastes

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Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.

Jordan, Michael

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Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing.

William Shakespeare

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When you jump for joy, beware that no one moves the ground from beneath your feet.

Stanislaw J. Lec

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The love for work needs to be re-enthroned in our lives. Every family should have a plan for work that touches the life of each family member so that this eternal principle will be ingrained in their lives.

Ballard, M. Russell

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It is essential to our well-being, and to our lives, that we play and enjoy life. Every single day do something that makes your heart sing.

Marcia, Wieder

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Joy is the feeling of grinning on the inside.

Colgrove, Dr. Melba

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No man can succeed in a line of endeavor which he does not like.

Hill, Napoleon

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Joys divided are increased.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.

Mark Twain

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A person will be called to account on Judgment Day for every permissible thing he might have enjoyed but did not.

Talmud, The

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I always loved running -- it was something you could do by yourself, and under your own power. You could go in any direction, fast or slow as you wanted, fighting the wind if you felt like it, seeking out new sights just on the strength of your feet and the courage of your lungs.

Owens, Jesse

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There is no greater joy nor greater reward than to make a fundamental difference in someone's life.

Sister Mary Rose McGeady

28.

There is nothing better for a man, than that he should eat and drink, and that he should make his soul enjoy good in his labor. [Ecclesiastes 2:24]

Bible

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Joy runs deeper than despair

Boom, Corrie Ten

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Where a man can live, he can also live well.

Aurelius, Marcus

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One joy scatters a hundred grieves.

Proverb, Chinese

32.

When you were born, you cried and everybody else was happy. The only question that matters is this: When you die, will YOU be happy when everybody else is crying?

Campolo, Tony

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Cease, every joy, to glimmer on my mind, But leave---oh! leave the light of Hope behind.

Thomas Campbell

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Our works and our play. All our pleasures experienced as the pleasure of love. What could be better that? To feel in one's work the tender and flushed substance of one's dearest concern.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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The most profound joy has more of gravity than of gaiety in it.

Michel de Montaigne

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Enjoy the journey, enjoy ever moment, and quit worrying about winning and losing.

Biondi, Matt

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Winners take time to relish their work, knowing that scaling the mountain is what makes the view from the top so exhilarating.

Waitley, Denis

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Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don't wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it's at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savored.

Nightingale, Earl

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The only joy in the world is to begin.

Cesare Pavese

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The man who has no money is poor, but one who has nothing but money is poorer. He only is rich who can enjoy without owning; he is poor who though he has millions is covetous.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Don't set compensation as a goal. Find work you like, and the compensation will follow.

Lawrence, Harding

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The end of life is life. Life is action, the use of one's powers. And to use them to their height is our joy of duty.

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The joy is that we can take back our bodies, reclaim our health, and restore ourselves to balance. We can take power over what and how we eat. We can rejuvenate and recharge ourselves, bringing healing to the wounds we carry inside us, and bringing to fuller life the wonderful person that each of us can be.

Robbins, John

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Live your life each day as you would climb a mountain. An occasional glance toward the summit keeps the goal in mind, but many beautiful scenes are to be observed from each new vantage point. Climb slowly, steadily, enjoying each passing moment; and the view from the summit will serve as a fitting climax for the journey.

Melchert, Harold V

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As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round.

Hogan, Ben

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Joy is a subtle elf; I think one's happiest when he forgets himself.

Tourneur, Cyril

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Joy has this in common with pain, that it robs people of reason.

Platen

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Be absolutely determined to enjoy what you do.